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The bribery scandal involving a member of the House of Representatives, Farouk Lawan, and owner of Zenon Oil and Gas Limited, Femi Otedola, took an interesting twist on Monday.

The bribery video might be aired on national television anytime soon. Six video tapes and 16 audio tapes were likely to be made available to major television networks in the coming days our correspondents gathered

However, our correspondents could not confirm if the tapes were to be released by the State Security Service or one of the parties to the dispute.

Also on Monday, one of the audio clips of the 'transaction was played by a Lagos-based independent Channels Television.

The tape, which ran for about two minutes, contained a conversation believed to be between Otedola and Lawan.

In the tape, a voice believed to be Otedola's was heard discussing the venue, where the bribe money would be given to Lawan. The audio clip apparently indicated the duo was already in the middle of a conversation before the tape started rolling. It also indicated that one 'TJ' perhaps served as a go-between for the bribe giver and the bribe taker.

From the conversation too, it could be deduced that the first instalment of the $620,000 allegedly paid Lawan by Otedola was delivered at an airport though the name of the airport remained unknown.

It was also not clear who released the audio clip to the television station.

Reacting in Abuja on Monday, Lawan denounced the audio tape recording, adding that it was manipulated.

Lawan, who spoke through one of his lawyers, Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), challenged Otedola to release the complete audio and visual recordings without editing them. He described the audio tape as being "funny, phoney, satanic and manipulated."

A statement signed by the counsel reads in part, "We are counsel to Mr Farouk Lawan. He has drawn our attention to an audio visual piece of news aired on Channels Television which purported to be a conversation between Mr Femi Otedola and our client, Mr. Farouk Lawan.

"We have listened to and watched the audio with our client, Mr. Farouk Lawan.

"On his instructions, we hereby state that the audio is infertile, vague, puerile and inadmissible in evidence by any court of law or Tribunal.

"One simple question here: where is the visual of the audio?"

Lawan also challenged Otedola, or the Police or the SSS to produce this complete audio video, unedited and undoctor.

He said Otedola had the opportunity of doing this through Channels TV, but regretted that the oil magnate did not do this.

"He will certainly require forensic evidence to prove this to be true in this highly technologised world of manipulative evidence that can easily turn a man into a woman," the statement says.

Lawan challenged Otedola to air the entire audio and also the complete video for Nigerians to see the setting and the environment in which the alleged bribe took place.

He said this would contain the complete conversation between the two of them. He said the entire footage of the released audio was "devilish, satanic, luciferous, mischievous and completely taken out of context."

Even at that, he insisted that the audio showed that it was Otedola, who offered to pay the balance of the alleged bribe of 2.5 million US dollars and not that Lawan demanded it.

Meanwhile, the House of Representatives Committee on Ethics and Privileges said on Monday that it would not allow Otedola to dictate how it should conduct its proceedings.

The panel insisted that its sittings with the key actors involved in the $620, 000 bribery allegation must be held behind closed doors.

There were speculations on Monday that Otedola, who is due to appear before the panel on Tuesday (today), had given a condition to honour the invitation only if the proceedings would be broadcast live.
http://www.ipaidabribenaija.com/latest-news/read.php?id=5658

James Rosemond, stands accused of conspiring with five other men to kill Lowell Fletcher in 2009. Filed in the United States District Court in Manhattan, the indictment alleges that Rosemond and another man hired at least two of the defendants to kill Fletcher in exchange for drugs. Fletcher was shot to death on Sept. 27, 2009 in a Bronx neighborhood.
In what may be even bigger news, it turns out that Henchman admitted to prosecutors that he was involved in the infamous Quad City shooting of Tupac in 1994. You know, the shooting that ultimately led to the biggest, most violent rivalry rap’s ever seen. Apparently, Rosemond shared his guilt was trying to cut a deal. Per Chuck Phillips’ article at The Village Voice:
“Rosemond secretly admitted to involvement in Tupac’s ambush during one of nine “Queen For A Day” proffer sessions with the government last autumn, court transcripts show. (In such sessions, suspects under investigation choose to enter an agreement with the government to confess knowledge of certain crimes with the agreement that the information won’t be used to prosecute them.) His confession unfolded as he was trying to carve out a cooperation deal that might lead to a reduced sentence, according to federal prosecutors.
“Rosemond apparently came clean about his involvement in Tupac’s ambush shortly after his former best friend, Dexter Isaac, stepped forward last summer to publicly confess that he had led the attack on Shakur in 1994. Isaac released a statement on June 16, 2011 to allhiphop.com, saying it was Rosemond who had paid him to rob and pistol-whip Tupac.”
Unfortunately, neither Henchman nor anyone else will ever go to jail or even face a day in court for Pac’s shooting. The NYPD classified the case as a robbery and the New York statute for robbery is seven years. Still, two parties gain a bittersweet bit of vindication: Pac, who called it in “Against All Odds,” and scribe Phillips, who originally reported Henchman’s involvement in ’08 only to be forced to later recant parts of history.
http://swaggnews.com/post/25880103366/jimmy-henchman-sent-the-orders-to-kill-admits-role-in

James Rosemond, stands accused of conspiring with five other men to kill Lowell Fletcher in 2009. Filed in the United States District Court in Manhattan, the indictment alleges that Rosemond and another man hired at least two of the defendants to kill Fletcher in exchange for drugs. Fletcher was shot to death on Sept. 27, 2009 in a Bronx neighborhood.
In what may be even bigger news, it turns out that Henchman admitted to prosecutors that he was involved in the infamous Quad City shooting of Tupac in 1994. You know, the shooting that ultimately led to the biggest, most violent rivalry rap’s ever seen. Apparently, Rosemond shared his guilt was trying to cut a deal. Per Chuck Phillips’ article at The Village Voice:
“Rosemond secretly admitted to involvement in Tupac’s ambush during one of nine “Queen For A Day” proffer sessions with the government last autumn, court transcripts show. (In such sessions, suspects under investigation choose to enter an agreement with the government to confess knowledge of certain crimes with the agreement that the information won’t be used to prosecute them.) His confession unfolded as he was trying to carve out a cooperation deal that might lead to a reduced sentence, according to federal prosecutors.
“Rosemond apparently came clean about his involvement in Tupac’s ambush shortly after his former best friend, Dexter Isaac, stepped forward last summer to publicly confess that he had led the attack on Shakur in 1994. Isaac released a statement on June 16, 2011 to allhiphop.com, saying it was Rosemond who had paid him to rob and pistol-whip Tupac.”
Unfortunately, neither Henchman nor anyone else will ever go to jail or even face a day in court for Pac’s shooting. The NYPD classified the case as a robbery and the New York statute for robbery is seven years. Still, two parties gain a bittersweet bit of vindication: Pac, who called it in “Against All Odds,” and scribe Phillips, who originally reported Henchman’s involvement in ’08 only to be forced to later recant parts of history.

Farouk (VerB): To collect bribe and deny it, attributing evidence to video doctoring. Past tense: farouked
Example: To farouk is human

Farouker (Noun):
A person who farouks
Example: The National Assembly is populated with faroukers

Faroukee (Noun): A person who is farouked
Example: The desperate contractor became a faroukee in order to win the business

Faroukology (Noun): The study of bribe collection and denial of obvious evidence
Example: The politician has a degree in Faroukology from the University of Corruption

Faroukracy (Noun): Government of bribery, by the bribe givers for the bribe takers
Example: Our nation has been practicing faroukracy from independence.

Faroukism(Noun): The political ideology of bribery, corruption and cover ups.
Example: EFCC has prosecuted many advocates of faroukism

Faroukiosis(Noun): A chronic disorder of bribery taking and denial
Example: The doctor diagnosed the young politician of acute faroukiosis

Adjective
Faroukish: having the appearance of, or relating to bribery and denial
Example: Results of the investigation appear really faroukish

Adverb
Faroukistically: Carried out or done in a way that suggests a farouk
Example: The lawmakers carried on faroukistically. Its new learning of English o

The Late
Yusuf
Abubakar Shekau
He is the leader of Boko Haram.
He is said to be a fearless loner, a complex,
paradoxical man - part intellectual, part gangster.
Fondly called imam or leader by his followers,
Abubakar Muhammad Shekau was born in Shekau
village in Yobe State.
Some say he is 34 or 35, others that he may be 43 - the
uncertainty adds to the myths surrounding Nigeria’s
most wanted man.
Shekau was once thought to have been killed by
security forces in 2009 - only for him to reappear in
videos posted on the internet less than a year later as
Boko Haram’s new leader. He has not been seen in
public since. Instead, still images and video clips of
him are released from time to time, mostly online, by
the group’s faceless “public enlightenment
department”.
He is said to have met his predecessor in Maiduguri,
capital of Borno State through a mutual friend,
Mamman Nur, who is said to have masterminded the
August 2011 bombing of the UN office complex in
Abuja.
Under Shekau, Boko Haram has become more radical
and carried out more killings. He is fluent in his native
Kanuri, Hausa and Arabic languages - he does not
speak English.
He is said to have married one of Mohammed Yusuf’s
four wives and adopted their children.
Shekau does not communicate directly with the
group’s foot soldiers - he is said to wield his power
through a few select cell leaders, but even then,
contact is minimal.
He is nicknamed “Darul Tawheed”, which translates as
a specialist in Tawheed. This is an orthodox doctrine
of the uniqueness and oneness of Allah, which is the
very cornerstone of Islam.

Kabiru Sokoto was arrested in February by the State
Security Service (SSS). He was earlier arrested by the
police, and ‘allowed’ to escape. His escape led to the
dismissal of Deputy Commissioner of Police Zakari
Biu. He was declared wanted, with a N5million
ransom on his head before the SSS re-arrested him at
Mutum in Gassol Local Government Area of Taraba
State. He has been with the SSS. He is believed to be
giving vital information which has been helping
understand how the Boko Haram sect works.
His real name is Kabiru Abubakar Dikko. The 29-
year-old was born to the family of Umaru Jabbi of
Gagi village in Sokoto South Local Government Area
on May 9, 1983.
After the death of his father, his uncle, Abubakar
Dikko, adopted him and gave him his name. He
completed his secondary education in 2003 and was
admitted to the College of Nursing and Midwifery,
Sokoto, where he was said to have been a truant with
extremist tendencies.

Abu Qaqa
The SSS is also holding a man it said was the
spokesman of the sect, Abu Qaqa. But Boko Haram
has insisted that the man in the SSS custody is Abu
Darda, its head of public enlightenment. He was
arrested in February and has been with the agency
since then.
The sect said: “The person that was arrested was Abu
Darda and not Abu-Qaqa. I am Abul Qaqa, the
spokesman for the Jama’atu Ahlis Sunnati
Lidda’awati Wal Jihad. Abu Darda is the head of the
Lagina (Dept) of public enlightenment and not the
spokesman.
“The arrest of Abu Darda is an outright deception and
betrayal by the Nigerian government and security
agents. They proclaimed dialogue and are doing the
opposite. His arrest has proved to us that they were
waiting for us to avail ourselves so that they can arrest
us.
“We purposely sent Abu Darda to Kaduna to discuss
with some key government functionaries on the issue
of dialogue. Indeed, he had started talking to them but
unknown to him, they (had) directed some security
agents to trail him and arrest him.
“This is exactly what happened. He volunteered to
present himself for the dialogue but was betrayed.
Everybody knows our capability and tactics of
operation. It is evidently clear that none of our
members could be caught on a platter of gold and
without confrontation.”
In May, his father was reported killed by the sect in
Maiduguri because of his alleged revelations on the
group to the SSS.

Suleiman Mohammed
He was arrested in May along with his wife and five
children in the Farawa, Kano.
His arrest came hours after blasts and gunfire rocked
Maiduguri, the Borno State capital.
Mohammed has been described as Boko Haram’s head
of operations in Kano under the group’s suspected
leader, Abubakar Shekau.
Three pistols, a rifle, 1,000 rounds of ammunition and
10 Improvised Explosive Devices (IDEs) were
recovered from his house.

Ayuba Usman
He was arrested in May at his shop in a market in
Kano following information from suspected Boko
Haram members arrested in raids.
High profile suspects allegedly said Usman was
providing combustible chemicals used in the
manufacture of IEDs (improvised explosive devices)
for attacks on innocent people in the city.
Thirty-five drums of chemicals of 240 litres each and a
dozen bags of combustible items were recovered
during the raid on his shop in one of the markets in
Dala Local Government Area of the state.

Ibrahim Mohammed Ali
A prime suspect in the coordinated attacks on
Christian worshippers at the old campus of Bayero
University, Kano in which 20 persons, including 2
professor, were killed. He was arrested in May.
Ali, a diploma holder from Ramat Polytechnic,
Maiduguri, Borno State, was nabbed by security
operatives who had been on his trail.
The JTF arrested him after surrounding a house
located at Bubugaje, Sharada Phase III Industrial
Layout in Kumbotso Local Government Area, where he
was hiding.
There was a three-hour shoot-out between the JTF
and suspected members of the sect before he was
arrested.
via The Nation
http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/
news/51170-who-is-who-in-boko-haram.html

I don't use their account yet I got the mail. Bloody Idaiots... The thing many people have already falling for it by now. A friend of mine I am with got it and she was very excited,I thought it was for real until I got the same mail and I told her that it's scam since I don't bank with them. She didn't believe me tho as she has gone ahead to provide har info for them... Shame it is

'They' will cover any form of tracks that will make us know the forces behind them boko...
I ask, what about Kabiru Sokoto and co. that were caught? Where are they today? And what information have they gotten from him/them so far?
The so-called leaders that we have knows the truth behind this bombings yet they siddon dey luk and we dey lash each oda with tongue and weapons.
Shame....

Islam, a religion of mercy, does not permit terrorism. In the Quran, God has said:
God does not forbid you from showing kindness and dealing justly with those who have not fought you about religion and have not driven you out of your homes. God loves just dealers. (Quran, 60:

The Prophet Muhammad used to prohibit soldiers from killing women and children,1 and he would advise them: {...Do not betray, do not be excessive, do not kill a newborn child.}2 And he also said: {Whoever has killed a person having a treaty with the Muslims shall not smell the fragrance of Paradise, though its fragrance is found for a span of forty years.}3

Also, the Prophet Muhammad has forbidden punishment with fire.4

He once listed murder as the second of the major sins,5 and he even warned that on the Day of Judgment, {The first cases to be adjudicated between people on the Day of Judgment will be those of bloodshed.6}7

In light of these and other Islamic texts, the act of inciting terror in the hearts of defenseless civilians, the wholesale destruction of buildings and properties, the bombing and maiming of innocent men, women, and children are all forbidden and detestable acts according to Islam and the Muslims. Muslims follow a religion of peace, mercy, and forgiveness, and the vast majority have nothing to do with the violent events some have associated with Muslims. If an individual Muslim were to commit an act of terrorism, this person would be guilty of violating the laws of Islam.

Islam does not condone terrorism act and therefore, what boko haram are doing are contradicting the law of islam and as such condemned.

Boko haram are political and geographical organ. It's a shame,that it is being used by our leaders to achieve their aims. God is watching and only HE knows why HE allows such to be happening. HE will answer our prayers and by his grace,boko and the people behind them will b disgraced before our very eyes.

Columnist: 
Malcolm Fabiyi
Geopolitics is the social science theory that analyzes the relationships between politics and geographical territories. It provides an understanding of the links between political power and economic, demographic and geographical factors.  When predictions are made about what might happen in foreign affairs, or in the political dynamics of nations at a future time, geopolitics is the primary tool used for such analyses. The suggestion by foreign security agencies that Nigeria could disintegrate by 2015 is based on geopolitical analyses.
Politics in Nigeria is an ethnic and regional affair. In other words, Nigerian politics fits neatly into the geopolitical model. This has always been the case since the first Republic when three regional parties dominated Nigerian politics. Since 1999, a de facto six (6) regional geopolitical structure has defined the political space in Nigeria. Currently, all the major political parties use geopolitical zoning principles to select candidates for elections, and to allocate offices and positions.
In Nigeria’s zero sum political system in which winners-take-all, and patronage flows from the top downwards, the top geopolitical prize is the Presidency.
Geopolitical considerations require that the political actors who represent the political interests of the cleavage centers (the six geopolitical zones) will actively cultivate strategies that assure that they have dominance over the structures of power. The most successful of these strategies - dominant strategies as they are called – will become the major plays that will be used by political cleavage centers as they struggle for power.
The dominant geopolitical strategy of the 4th republic has been the use of ethnic militias to capture power centrally. That strategy has been remarkably successful. It ensured that a Yoruba President emerged in 1999, and led directly to the emergence of a minority Vice President from the South-South region in 2007.
The June 12 struggle was partly a philosophical debate about the role and nature of democracy in Nigeria, and partly a geopolitical struggle for relevance by the Yoruba.
The response of the Babangida and Abacha juntas to the crisis that followed the annulment of the June 12, 1993 elections underscored the recognition of the geopolitical implications of that conflict. Abiola’s certain victory would have certainly advanced Nigerian democracy, and it would have been a clear geopolitical boon for the Yoruba. To douse the geopolitical urgency of the June 12 crisis for the Yoruba, Babangida installed Ernest Shonekan, a Yoruba of the same Egba extraction as Abiola, as head of the Interim Transition Government. When Abacha eased out Shonekan’s transition government a few months later, it was Oladipo Diya, another Yoruba man from Abiola’s Ogun State, that he selected as his deputy.
In time, the philosophical debate about democracy and its place in Nigeria, which was initiated by the June 12 crisis, fizzled out but its geopolitical essence was retained. The June 12 movement soon came to be seen increasingly as a Yoruba Struggle. The OPC was formed in 1997, as the June 12 struggle progressively devolved to its geopolitical essence. The emergence of groups like Afenifere and the OPC represented the crystallization of the most extreme geopolitical aspects of the June 12 struggle. It was clear that the Yoruba geopolitical struggle would not cease until the egregious wrongs done to the Yoruba by the annulment of June 12, 1993 were righted by the emergence of a Yoruba man as the legitimate President of Nigeria. As the 1999 transition to democracy dawned, the threat of secession by the Yoruba, and the emergence of the O’dua People’s Congress (OPC) militia as a paramilitary outfit that could give muscle to those separatist aspirations compelled the Northern elite and the major political parties to unanimously agree on the exclusive adoption of Yoruba candidates for the Presidency.
It can be argued that without the OPC and the threat that it posed to the unity of the Nigerian nation, Olusegun Obasanjo could never have become President in 1999.
The North’s attempt at taming the geopolitical implications of a Yoruba Presidency was to opt for a “balanced” South Westerner, who could be used to rule by proxy and relied upon to facilitate the transfer of power to the north. Obasanjo, a Yoruba man whose handling of the 1979 elections had demonstrated his capacity for acting beyond the confines of tribal and regional geopolitics, was a reasonable choice for the North to settle upon.
Within a few months of Obasanjo’s swearing in, it had become crystal clear that the expectation of the Northern elite that they would rule by proxy through Obasanjo had been a huge miscalculation. Obasanjo’s immediate actions in office emasculated the North politically. The sweep of all military officers that had held political office between 1985 and 1999 disproportionally affected the North since that region had held a dominance of power and privilege in the Nigerian military. Obasanjo’s increasing appointment of Northern minorities and Christians to positions typically reserved for “core Northerners” caused the reemergence of rifts between the so called “core North”, minority Northerners, Christian Northerners and the Middle Belt zone. The notion of a monolithic North was increasingly being exposed as a fallacy.
The North was losing out politically and it needed to stem the tide. The response of the Northern political elite was swift. Sectarian separatism via the adoption of political sharia, a limited form of secession, was their tool of choice. In January 2000, Zamfara made the first move towards political Sharia, and by 2002, the twelve (12) Northernmost States in Nigeria had instituted Sharia law in varying degrees. Thousands were killed in the ethnic and sectarian conflicts that ensued.  As a geopolitical tool, political sharia worked wonders. Obasanjo’s government took less drastic actions that threatened the North, and the region was ‘carried along’ more by the OBJ regime.  
The geopolitical stakes were further raised when the Naaba led, Northern dominated, National Assembly attempted to impeach Obasanjo in 2002/2003 on the pretext of his government’s handling of the onshore-offshore dichotomy issue. What many do not realize was the role that geopolitics also played in preventing Obasanjo’s impeachment. The National Assembly only dropped its plans to impeach Obasanjo and pave the way for Atiku’s takeover of the Presidency when Afenifere under Pa Abraham Adesanya’s leadership threatened to precipitate a constitutional crisis if Obasanjo was removed from office. The behind the scenes maneuverings that took place during this period are worth recounting.
The geopolitical arrangements that followed the 1999 elections allocated the Presidency to the South West, the Vice Presidency to the North East, the Senate Presidency to the South East and the Speakership of the House of Representatives to the North West. When the first speaker of the House, Salisu Buhari was impeached, his deputy, Chibudom Nwuche was passed over for Ghali Naaba, another Northerner, in accordance with the extant geopolitical compromise. A similar scenario played out in the Senate. When Evans Enwerem was impeached, his deputy Haruna Abubakar was passed over, and the South Eastern Senator Chuba Okadigbo became Senate President. Following Okadigbo’s impeachment, another South Eastern Senator Pius Anyim became Senate President. All of these arrangements were extra-constitutional.
Afenifere’s geopolitical threat was simple: if Obasanjo was impeached, the Yoruba would request a special election, limited only to candidates from the Southwest region, to produce Obasanjo’s replacement – in accordance with the geopolitical compromise of 1999, and in line with the precedents that had been set in the Senate and the House of Representatives. The impeachment plot quickly unraveled when it became clear that it could not possibly yield the desired outcome.
By the time of Obasanjo’s departure in 2007, the pendulum of power had swung back to the North. The Traditional geopolitical considerations in Nigeria would have ensured that Yaradua’s deputy would be a person of Igbo extraction. However, between 1999 and 2007, the geopolitical dynamics of Southern Nigeria had been radically altered by the emergence of MEND and other allied South-South militant groups.
The Egbesu emerged as one of several militant youth groups that played key roles during the Ijaw-Itshekiri-Urhobo crisis. The major political actors in the South South region saw the potential that some of these groups offered not just for the harassment and intimidation of opponents, but for enhancing the geopolitical relevance of the South South. Governors like Peter Odili, James Ibori and Diepreye Alamieyeseigha courted, financed and aided these groups. In time, the militancy of the Egbesu and other South South militant groups began to stray beyond the local politics of the South-South States and were more strategically directed towards geopolitical questions of resource control. The end result was that within the eight years from 1999 to 2007, the disparate groups had fused into MEND, and their activities had resulted in the ascendancy of the South South, and in particular the Ijaw nation, as a major center in Nigerian geopolitics. The Niger Delta crisis was essentially a geopolitically induced conflict, and its resolution required the inclusion of the South South in the center stage of Nigerian politics. Without MEND, Goodluck Jonathan would not have been Yaradua’s Vice President. Without Jonathan’s stint as Yaradua’s deputy and his eventual elevation to the Presidency following Yaradua’s death, he would not be President of Nigeria today.
Boko Haram began life in Borno State in 2002 as a religious group that enjoyed the patronage of Governor Ali Modu Sheriff until their parting of ways in 2009. It is on record that Modu Sheriff appointed Alhaji Buju Foi, an influential Boko Haram member and financier as the Borno State Commissioner for Religious Affairs in 2007.
Despite the increasing militancy of the sect in Borno and Yobe States from its establishment in 2002, most Nigerians had never heard of Boko Haram until the events of July 2009 when the Nigerian Security Agencies engaged Boko Haram in a full blown assault in Maiduguri. In that tragic incident the Nigerian State facilitated the extra Judicial killing of hundreds of Boko Haram members. The dead included Muhammad Yusuf, the sect’s leader. The events of July 2009, led to the nationalization of the Boko Haram conflict.
Much like Egbesu and MEND before it, Boko Haram has evolved to become a major geopolitical tool. The Northern political elite have come to see the value of Boko Haram for driving forward their geopolitical strategies for political relevance. In the same way that the OPC and MEND paved the way for Obasanjo and Jonathan to win the Presidency, those who seek to make geopolitical hay out of the Boko Haram crisis except that it will lead to significant political benefits for the North. The not too subtle message is that Nigeria will be made ungovernable if power and privilege does not devolve back to the North.
The silence of Northern political leaders in condemning the actions of Boko Haram is a clear signal of their tacit endorsement of the sect and its destabilizing actions. Again, this is not surprising. For geopolitical reasons, mainstream Yoruba and Ijaw political leaders did not openly condemn the OPC or MEND either. There are however some significant issues with the use of Boko Haram as a geopolitical tool. Unlike MEND and OPC, Boko Haram’s message is not purely geopolitical. The sect is first and foremost a religious fundamentalist organization and that fact makes it ineffective as an effective geopolitical tool.
The North has never lacked the ability to present Presidential candidates on the platform of major parties. It has failed to find a way to guarantee that a Northern Presidential candidate emerges on the platform of the PDP, the only party which despite its many faults can make any claims to being a truly national party, and therefore most likely to produce Nigeria’s President. The Boko Haram crisis is in effect an attempt to influence the politics of the PDP, and through that the political dynamics of the Nigerian nation.
The risk for the North is that the sectarian colorations of Boko Haram will come to frame that region’s geopolitical aspirations. The association of Northern geopolitical aspirations with the random maiming and killing of civilians, the calls for the expulsion of Southerners and Northern Christians is damaging the North politically. Soon, it might make the Presidency of Nigeria all but impossible for a Northerner to attain.
Forcing a Northerner to the Presidential ticket of the PDP is one thing, getting votes from across Nigeria to guarantee that candidate’s electoral victory is another.
Buhari was forced to adopt a Southern Christian running mate to allay concerns that he was a religious fundamentalist. Without the Southern vote, and devoid of Northern Christian support, no candidate can win the Nigerian Presidency. As the Boko Haram crisis spirals forward, Northern Christians and the Middle Belt will be firmly pushed towards a geopolitical reality that will increasingly favor collaboration with the South.
The prognosis for Nigeria is grim. Geopolitical considerations suggest that the Boko Haram crisis will continue until at least 2015. Its effective resolution will not occur until a Northern Presidential candidate emerges on the platform of the PDP and goes on to win the Nigerian Presidency. The prospect that a Northern President will emerge on the platform of the PDP is slim because Goodluck Jonathan wants a second term, and the odds are skewed in favor of the incumbent. The likelihood that a Northern Presidential candidate will receive Southern and Northern Christian support is fading.
Any path to the Presidency that harms Goodluck Jonathan while elevating his Northern deputy to the Presidency has the potential to lead to the immediate disintegration of Nigeria, or at the least the secession of the Niger Delta region. Without the Niger Delta, Nigeria’s political center is unattractive and the status quo will fight another Civil War if necessary to prevent the possibility of the Niger Delta’s exit from Nigeria.
In the meantime, the rapidly evolving nature of the Boko Haram conflict is alarming. Christian Youth in Jos and Kaduna have begun reprisal attacks in response to the actions of Boko Haram. This suggests that the ordinary folks in these communities have come to believe that Boko Haram is indeed a geopolitical tool of the Northern agenda. It also implies that they believe that agenda excludes Northern Christians and Southerners. As the conflict persists through 2015, and the government continues to fail to contain the crisis, the random reprisal attacks will become more organized. Geopolitics will require that the sectarian nature of the Boko Haram crisis will birth a Northern Christian alternative to Boko Haram. This will be driven not so much by the desire for national relevance by Christian Northerners, but as a means for addressing what they will increasingly perceive as an existential threat.
Unless urgent actions are taken by the Government to tackle the Boko Haram crisis, the path to 2015 will be a dangerous one for the Nigerian nation and its people.  The stakes for Nigeria are too high. The geopolitical angle to Boko Haram must be immediately defused. The prosecution of Senator Ali Ndume and other political actors so far implicated in the crisis should be swift, public and comprehensive. Vice President Sambo should also publicly address Ndume’s allegation that he (Sambo) was aware of Ndume’s engagements with Boko Haram. The stakes should also be raised for the sponsors of the violence. It takes millions of Naira to source rifles and explosives, support tens of thousands of followers and to coordinate attacks across cities and states. Boko Haram is a city dwelling sect. The Nigerian security agencies must do more to find Boko Haram’s financiers, and to penetrate and neutralize the network. To save Nigeria, Jonathan must remember that his oath is not to the PDP but to the Nigerian people.
Source: http://mobile.saharareporters.com/column/boko-haram-will-damage-north-politically-possibly-disintegrate-nigeria

Please, am having a weird problem with my stomach. It grumbles a lot with loud noise and it's embarrassing. At a point,I thought I have worms and I took zentel(that's about 4 months ago) but even after that till now,it still grumbles. About an hour ago, I was in the library reading and all of a sudden, my stomach stated making this loud noise from withing me and to people around it sounds like am farting. I'm seriously thinking of buying zentel and andrew liver salt to kill any gaddamn worm in me.
But is it a good move?
I need your advice please.

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Goodluck Jonathan – Redefining Failure

“Goodluck, however, is neither clueless nor is he ineffective. He is a meticulous strategist and his execution is callous and brutal. Under the genial he-cant-hurt-a-fly façade is a burukutu guzzler, a Niger-Delta terrorist, a professional witch-hunter, a devilish opportunist, and a proficient thief. He has been using the proceeds from his colossal empire of corruption to fund terrorism within the nation, while using the terrorism to divide us along religious and ethnic paths and to divert our attentions from the corruption”

Those were my words in this column two weeks ago in an article titled: Like a Punch in The Face) and I’ll like to tender my unreserved apology to Mr. President for painting such a wrong picture of who he is. Wrong, not in the sense of being incorrect, but rather in the sense of being incomplete. Incomplete in the sense that I forgot to add that he is also a liar, a very good one, a divisive tactician and an evil genius. On Tuesday May 29th, instead of giving an honest account of his one year in office, Mr. President embarked on a campaign of lies and falsehood that would make even the devil clap in admiration, and to cover his tracks, he announced that the University of Lagos (UNILAG) would now be known and referred to as the Moshood Abiola University, Lagos (MAUL) in honour of late Chief MKO Abiola, an icon of democracy and winner of the annulled June 12 1993 Presidential election.

This undemocratic and diversionary announcement has expectedly generated a lot of controversies, and has ultimately distracted us from scrutinizing the falsehood that permeated that day’s broadcast and indeed critically assess the President’s achievements, or lack of, in the past one year. As a teacher however, giving my students a report of their academic performances at the end of every term/session is an essential part of my job, and one that I don’t joke with. As such, I refuse to be distracted by that new track on Jonathan’s National Distraction Album and choose to focus on his performance in office in the past one year. So Mr. President, here is your report card.

Goodluck Jonathan, you have failed, and spectacularly so. In the past one year, Nigeria has moved from being a peace-keeper to a peace-seeker, corruption has increased under your guidance, you have pushed several millions of Nigerians into the pit of poverty, and there’s no assurance they’ll ever get out under your administration. You have broken the previous records for incompetence and corruption and have set new ones. So monumental has your failure being that several new words have been introduced into Nigeria’s political lexicon just to qualify your lack of success at the things that really matter.

Ben Murray Bruce said the reason he wanted to become Bayelsa Governor was because the state is one of the richest and yet least developed states in the nation. As a former Deputy Governor and Governor of that state, one would have expected you to bury your head in shame at being called a failure in front of the whole world that day, but no, not you, you smiled and clapped instead. You are so used to being called a failure that it’s beginning to sound like a compliment to you.

How good would it have been for you make these announcements in your May 29 broadcast:

Rename the National Stadium Abuja after MKO Abiola and make June 12 a National Public Holiday and official National Democracy Day.
Announce a 10% increase in the funding of all Federal universities.
Announce a 50% May salary bonus for workers nationwide.
Announce a 50% cut in your salaries and allowances and those of the members of the Federal Executive Council and your numerous aides and advisers, with a plea to the Federal legislators to do the same.
Announce a N37/N27/N17 or even N7 reduction in the pump price of petroleum.
Announce the sack of Diezani Madueke and her #fuelsubsidyscam compatriots and hand them over to the EFCC (that would include you though).
Announce the immediate reinstatement of Justice Ayo Salami.
Declare your assets.

These are things you could have done on May 29 to atone for the failures of the past year, but it would be naïve of anyone to expect you to do such, wouldn’t it? The same naivety that pushed people to vote for you out of sympathy for your shoeless upbringing, the same naivety that made Christians vote for you thinking you’re humble and God-fearing, the same naivety that made the South-Easterners vote for you thinking you’d better their lots being from a region closer to them than the North (they even named you Azikiwe, what a travesty!). But no, we are no longer naïve, and we expected nothing better than the lies you cooked up on May 29th, to have done otherwise would have been a miracle of the order of turning stone to bread.

Nigerians are getting used to your style and none of the tactics you used in that past year will work again. So prepared are we for the gimmicks you’re prone to using to cover up your failures that we are already armed to receive whatever package you have to offer come October 1st when you’ll have to give a broadcast and an account of your stewardship again. Believe you me, nothing you say on that day or before will come as a surprise to Nigerians, except of course your resignation and apology for being a disappointment and a plague on us.

You have shown yourself to be a man with disdain for consultations. Consultations with civil society groups were not over before you went on to announce the fuel subsidy removal on January 1st, plunging the nation into unnecessary chaos and ultimately leading to the death of 20 young men. You also did not consult with the authorities and stakeholders of UNILAG before announcing a change of name for the institution. You didn’t even go through the due process of getting the University of Lagos Act of 1962 amended before going on TV to make an undemocratic announcement on Democracy Day!

Mr. President, before you come up with your conspiracy theories again, nobody hates you, we just dislike failure and its progenitors. The trick is that if you actually tidy up your house and attend to the business of governance in the coming year, if you curb your addiction for dipping those hands into the federation account and our foreign reserve without remorse, if you obey the rule of law and listen to the voice of the people, Nigerians are a very forgiving people, all your sins will be forgiven you, and maybe, just maybe, you won’t end up sharing a room with Ibori in his new estate.

At least MKO Abiola did enough in his lifetime, even without becoming President, to merit having an higher institution of international standard named after him and the observance of June 12 as Democracy Day/Public Holiday in his honour by at least the South-Western states, with the way you are going you’ll be lucky to have Otuoke Community Primary School named after you after we chase you out of office in 2015, OR BEFORE.

Tonto Dikey would have done better!

Major Hamza Al-Mustapha and Alhaji Lateef Sofolahan who were convicted of the murder of Alhaja Kudirat Abiola have filed additional grounds of appeal at the Lagos Division of the Appeal Court, against the judgement of Justice Mojisola Dada of the Lagos High Court.

This was disclosed directly to LEADERSHIP WEEKEND yesterday by counsel to the two men, Olalekan Ojo. He confirmed that the copy of the judgement of the Lagos High Court had now been made available.

"Records of appeal will be transmitted to the Court of Appeal by 21st. The implication of this is that parties can exchange briefs of arguments preparatory after the transmission of the record, briefs of argument can be exchanged. Our expectation is that the Court of Appeal will start to sit latest in October.

Giving details of the additional grounds of appeal Ojo said one of them was "that the learned trial judge erred in law by relying on Exhibit A6( a purported confessional statement of Sofolahan during interrogation) which the court said had got lost when no other copy of it was tendered by the prosecutor to replace that which was lost.

Culled from Leadership

POLICE SEARCH FAROUK LAWAN'S HOME, SEIZE PASSPORT, $10,000
Indications emerged yesterday that the police searched the home of Farouk Lawan in a bid to recover the $620, 000, which is at the centre of the controversy between him and Femi Otedola.

A source close to the lawmaker said that the police barred Lawan's lawyers from witnessing the search of his home, although his wife and children were present during the raid.

Details of what they took away from the lawmaker's Apo Legislative Quarters were not made public, but it was learnt that his diplomatic passport was seized by the

police.

The source said that the police however, accorded respect to the lawmaker throughout his stay with them.

Meanwhile, the search conducted by the police in Lawan Farouk's house reportedly led the discovery of $10,000, which the police claimed was part of the bribe funds.

But the lawmaker maintained that the money was part of the money he recently came back with from one of his overseas trips.

He maintained that the money was not marked.

It is not known how much was found on the home of Lawan's former clerk, Mr. Boniface Emenalo.

LEADERSHIP source said the police were shocked at the discovery of a huge amount of dollars in the public officers' homes. It was learnt that the shocking find informed the police stringent bail conditions handed down to the suspects.

Although the bail conditions were not made known, LEADERSHIP gathered that they were such that the duo could not meet before the close of work yesterday.

To this end, the two suspects are to spend their weekend with the police, who are likely to arraign them in court early next week for the alleged offence.

Reacting to the development in the House yesterday, the chairman of Zenon Petroleum and Gas Ltd, Mr. Femi Otedola, said that it would have been impossible for him to draw the a whopping sum of $372, 207,990 without importing petroleum products.

Otedola said that the amount of foreign exchange collected by his firm stood at $372, 207, 990 and not $323, 975, 385.13 claimed by the House committee on subsidy probe.

"They should go and amend the report to read $372, 207, 990, which is the correct figure," Otedola said.

Culled from Leadership

Subject: OTEDOLA VS LAWAN... OBJ & GEJ
CONNECTION...
GEJ: Baba, trouble dey oh!
OBJ: What is it Jona?
GEJ: It’s this short man that removed Ete oh, he’s
disturbing me.
OBJ: I know this people at the hollow chamber.
They are thieves and robbers. They steal the little
money we give them and turn around to disturb us
for more. You know what you will do?
GEJ: No sir...
OBJ: Call Femi, to arrange small change and tempt
the guy.
GEJ: Like how much sir?
OBJ: $3m
GEJ: That’s too much oh.
OBJ: You are no longer a palm-wine tapper oh; you
are the president of the most corrupt country on
earth, the earlier you get that the better.
GEJ: Supposing he rejects it?
OBJ: Jona, He’s first a member of PDP and a
Nigerian. Look who is not a thief here? Myself?
Yourself?, Sambo? David? Even among this other
political parties who is not?
GEJ: You are right sir.
OBJ: Once Lawan collects the money that is the end
of the probe report and beginning of another case.
Get any of this home video people to produce the
film.
GEJ: Baba, you are the original “Evil Genius”
OBJ: O ti o....

Nigerians are about to be
treated to a tsunami-like political battle between
the Presidency, with the backing of ex-President
Olusegun Obasanjo and the leadership of the PDP
on the one hand, and Speaker Aminu Tambuwal
with his deputy, Emeka Ihedioha on the other.
In fact, an authoritative source revealed on
Wednesday night that the case of the Deputy
Speaker is already settled because "the cabal"
seems to have succeeded in linking him to the
Farouk Lawan bribery scandal and the last obstacle
now, in the books of the Presidency, is Tambuwal.
President Jonathan and Chief Obasanjo have said to
be on the same page in the move to sack Tambuwal
because "they see him as too independent and very
arrogant" Tambuwal is already aware of
the plot to sack him and part of his fight-back
strategies will certainly play out on the floor of the
House of Reps when they reconvene on Friday for
an emergency session.

As for the Deputy Speaker, sources say he's almost
on his own as it is believed that he kept Tambuwal
in the dark in "whatever transaction he had with
Farouk Lawan". Also, there are strong indication
that the deal to rubbish Farouk and the House was
initiated by the Minister of Petroleum, Mrs.
Diezani Allison-Madueke as, according to sources,
her efforts to make Farouk shift grounds had failed.
Reactions From Two Different Groups:
A group of legal practitioners, under the aegis of
Public Interest Lawyers League, have demanded
the resignation of the Speaker, Aminu Tambuwal.
They also demanded the questioning Mr. Femi
Otedola to determine his level of complicity in the
saga. President of the group, Abdul Mahmud, said
this at a press conference in Abuja.

However, the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy
Centre, CISLAC, has raised the alarm over a plot to
use the fuel subsidy bribery scandal to remove
Tambuwal. A statement by CISLAC’s Executive
Director, Auwal Musa in Abuja alleged that the
Presidency and the oil cabal were involved in the
plot. It said the two had never been comfortable
with Tambuwal’s style of leadership.

After analysing the debate about the two cars,my verdict is the op should go for the benz if he has the money to take care of it. But if not,the honda it is

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Farouk Lawan who is at the centre of the
$3 million bribery scandal in the House of
Representatives, yesterday revealed in Abuja, that
he reported the bribe to law enforcement agents as
far back as April 24.
Documents released by National Assembly sources
to the media, yesterday, showed that Lawan
reportedly intimated the House Committee on
Financial Crimes in a letter dated April 24, 2012, of
pressures to offer him bribe to influence the
outcome of the investigation into the fuel subsidy
scheme.
In a letter to the leadership of the House, Lawan
also said his “life has been under constant threat
since the fuel probe begun.”
Hon. Lawan reported the bribe to the police
following which the Inspector-General in a letter
dated, May 9, 2012, directed a task force on
investigation to meet him.
The IGP in the letter with reference number
CR:3000/IGP.SEC/STF/FHQ/ABJ/VOL 2/309
called Lawan’s attention to an interview he granted
a national newspaper on April 28, 2012 and
directed, “a discreet investigation into the matter.”
The letter was signed by the Commissioner of
Police, Special Task Force, Ali Amodu.
He said that in another letter dated May 16, 2012
with reference number CR:3000/IGP.SEC/STF/
FHQ/ABJ/VOL 2/319, and signed by Amodu, the
IGP requested money exhibit, names of witnesses
and other material evidence from him.
Hon. Lawan explained that in a letter dated May 31,
2012, he told the IGP that the matter (bribe offer)
had been referred to the relevant committee of the
House for legislative actions.
After the correspondence between the IGP and
Hon. Farouk, the IGP in a letter to the Speaker of
the House, Rt Hon. Aminu Tambuwal, dated June
4, 2012, stated that a detailed criminal
investigation had been ordered into the matter.
In the letter titled, “Investigation activities: Letter
of invitation in a case of criminal conspiracy and
attempt to pervert the course of justice by offering
gratification,” the office of the IGP stated that “the
Inspector General of Police has directed a detailed
criminal investigation into the matter.”
Mr. Otedola, had in an interview with a national
newspaper, yesterday alleged that Hon. Farouk and
the Secretary of the Committee, Boniface Emenalo,
had collected a total $620,000 from him in a sting
operation masterminded by the security agencies.
He said that during the probe, Zenon told the
committee that it had nothing to do with the
subsidy regime because it was not importing petrol,
which is being subsidized but that Hon. Farouk
insisted on being bribed to leave his company’s
name out of the report which prompted him to
offer him marked currency notes.
Source- www.vanguardngr.com/2012/06/i-told-efcc-about-bribe-money-in-april-lawan-farouk/

@Op,d link u provided der is false... Dude pls get ur facts right next time... United till we expire @Op,d link u provided der is false... Dude pls get ur facts right next time... United till we expire

Erstwhile, military Head of State, General Sanni
Abacha died on June 8, 2008 just before winning
the unanimous endorsement of the five registered
political parties of that era. His death led to a
resetting of the shape and structure of the Nigerian
political landscape. But what if he had lived?
PResident Sani Abacha was in amiable mood as he
grinned mischievously to his long time friend and
play partner, Dr. Jeremiah Oseni on the tarmac of
the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja
that afternoon. Air Force One, carrying President
Barrack Obama of the United States had just
touched down at the airport and President Abacha
was making a rare outing to receive the world’s
most powerful leader.
“We got them didn’t I tell you? All we needed to do
was to insulate ourselves and all this democracy
nonsense will die out,” the Nigerian president said
to Oseni, his long time associate. “Ranka dede you
are correct, now the President of the world’s leading
democracy has come to meet with the President of
Africa’s biggest democracy,” Oseni said.
“Yes, your claim that the world will come to meet
us on your terms has paid off,” Dr. Oseni who like
Abacha had risen through the ranks of the Nigerian
Army to the position of a General told the
president.
Following his disengagement from the military at
the official age of 60, Oseni had seen it expedient to
replace his military appellation of General with a
civilian title. At least four universities including the
University of Lagos had honoured him with
doctorate degrees for his service to the fatherland.
A former Minister of the Federal Capital, Dr. Oseni
emerged as the President of the Senate and had
kept the chamber in quiet submission to the
dictates of President Abacha.
As the pair conversed and waited for President
Obama to deplane, Nigeria’s Prime Minister, the
western educated Alhaji Teslim Polarin kept a
distance alongside the Foreign Minister, Chief
James Ebori and a horde of bureaucrats who kept a
quiet conversation with the Chief Security Officer
to the President, Brig-Gen. Hamisu Al Mustapha.
Political caucus
Polarin who had originally designed himself for the
Nigerian senate was nominated for the position of
Prime Minister by the Yoruba politician, Alhaji
Lamidi Adedibu who had emerged against all odds
to become the leader of the Yoruba political caucus
in the country. Polarin was nominated following the
exit from office of the first Prime Minister under
Abacha, Chief Jim Nwaobodo who had served two
consecutive terms between 1998 and 2008.
Far back in the reception line were chairmen of the
five political parties; parties that had been once
described as the five fingers of a leprous hand.
Three of the five parties had over time shrunk
leaving the dominant two, the United Nigerian
Centre Party, UNCP and the Grassroots Democratic
Movement, GDM to struggle for space.
Chief Barabbas Demade, national chairman of the
Grassroots Democratic Party and Alhaji Isa Lawal
national chairman of the United Nigeria Centre
Party, UNCP were as usual engaged in their
unending game of superiority to take front position
in the receiving party. After the five parties in 1998
adopted the then General Abacha, the two foremost
national parties had continued to take turns in
succeeding presidential election to present Abacha
in the elections.
The world had been aghast at the folly of the
Nigerian political class in 1998 when all five
political parties adopted Abacha in the presidential
elections. Following that, ahead of the 2003
elections it was agreed that for democratic
decorum that the UNCP should present Abacha
while the GDM should not present a candidate. In
2003 it was the turn of the GDM to present
Abacha.
The other three national political parties, however,
presented presidential candidates who in the 2003
and 2008 presidential elections all lost their
deposits that were reportedly offset by the
administration.
Inside the plane as he prepared to step down from
Air Force One, President Obama was still trying to
reconcile himself with the reality of engaging the
Nigerian ruler who had been the scorn of two of his
immediate predecessors.
President Bill Clinton it was reported had employed
all manner of intrigues including employing the use
of two Indian born female operatives of the Central
Intelligence Agency, CIA to undermine the Nigerian
president.
President Obama smiled quietly as he remembered
the secret briefing he had been given of how a
diplomatic incident between the two countries
broke out after one of the Indian girls died after
eating an apple laced with cyanide that she was
supposed to have fed Abacha with.
In the exhilarating exhaustion that followed a romp
and rollick with Abacha one of the more
adventurous ladies had eaten the poisonous apple
that Abacha had secretly swapped with another
apple of his own which he had eaten.
The diplomatic fuss that followed saw the surviving
girl detained in Abuja for two years and was only
released following quiet moves by President George
Bush who succeeded Clinton to downplay the
opposition of the West to Abacha’s transmutation
as civilian president.
But it required more than that for President
Obama to visit Nigeria. One of the conditions that
had been negotiated with Nigeria’s foreign
minister, Chief Ebori was that the respected
Nigerian former military head of state and African
statesman, Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo would be
allowed to meet with Obama during the visit.
Indeed, prior to the visit, a senior United States
diplomat had visited Obasanjo in his residence in
Otta to prepare him for the visit. The one time
Nigerian leader, the diplomat reported in his
dispatch to Washington was in good health but
lived in miserable conditions.
His one time profitable farm had been run aground
during the time of his incarceration between 1995
and 1999. Obasanjo was released in 1999 as part of
Abacha’s efforts in wooing the world after his
strange democratic expression in 1998.
Even though free, Obasanjo ‘s life was one of hand
to mouth dependent on his military pension and
periodic inflows from his children abroad including
his US based daughter, Iyabo who is a successful
veterinary doctor in the United States.
As Obama deplaned he was escorted by a number
of senior officials of the US administration, but the
surprise for their Nigerian hosts was the presence
in the entourage of a former Nigerian senator and
activist in the National Democratic Collation,
NADECO, Senator Sola Sinubu.
Sinubu’s visit to Nigeria it had been agreed
between Nigerian diplomats and US administration
officials was purely apolitical, Sinubu was visiting
to see his aged mother and matriarch of Lagos
traders. As Obama neared him, Abacha could not
but again mutter to Oseni near him, yes we got
democracy in my own terms.

May ur soul rest in perfect peace Amina and to all dos on board. Ameen

My house was the 'face-me-I-face-you type' there was never a problem of a girl in my compound coming into our parlor. Life then,was very sweet and funny. Bleep that year too was very easy... Parlor,bathroom,behind the house,even at 10pm,parents were cool with us been outside as long as we are within the compound.

f help had come early, the over 140 persons, who died in the Dana commercial air plane crash at Iju, Lagos, yesterday might have saved, residents have said.

According to them, the aircraft did not explode immediately it crashed. It exploded after about 20 minutes.

An eyewitness said the incident happened between 3pm and 4pm.

Narrating how the crash happened, an eyewitness, who claimed anonymity noted that the aircraft was seen swinging before it eventually landed on a newly constructed storey building.

''I was here with my wife and other people when we saw the plane moving around in random directions. Initially we were confused, but when it was getting usually close to the rooftop of the

houses around, we stood up and traced were it eventually landed,'' he noted.

Continuing, the eyewitness said, ''When we go to the scene, we saw the plane on the building and it did not explode upon landing. The only fire from the aircraft was from the cockpit which was not much. It was only ten of us that first got to the scene. That little fire would have been quenchable if there was immediate emergency response from fire fighters. We were even using sachets of pure water to put off the fire before we heard loud explosion after 20 minutes.''

It was further gathered that the absence of emergency response from concerned authorities, prompted one of the eyewitnesses at the scene to call the Chairperson of Local the Government, who informed the Lagos State Government.

''When we discovered that emergency rescue service was not on sight, my wife had to call the chairperson of the local government, who informed Fashola's people. It was that call that altered the authorities. But if the rescue service had arrived on time, they would have been saved because there was no fire when the plane landed on the buildings. The pilot of the aircraft was very brave because we noticed it from the way the aircraft was swinging before it crashed,'' another eye said.

What could have turned into another tragedy, occurred when the men of the Nigerian Army started dispersing sympathisers at the scene when they arrived.

http://www.ipaidabribenaija.com/latest-news/read.php?id=4186

Hahaha

Both girls are competing for the person to have the
lightest skin, and the winner is............................

Tony and co.,will they ever grow out of their old age? Please,enough is enough.... We are tired of the whole mess that is almost crippling all sectors of nigerian economy! They should even think about rigging the election or else what Buhari predicted will happen come 2015 when PDP rig election,it will come to pass this very year if PDP should dare Bleep-UP!